Reclaiming Inventory: Pets and Mounts Learnable as Spells

When I’m not fine-tuning my gear, farming or leveling a plethora of alts, I enjoy collecting non-combat pets. A waste of bank space, right? With at least six different gear sets on my druid, I couldn’t agree more, but somehow I’m attached to all the critters I’ve accumulated over the years.

Players will be able to â€œlearnâ€ a mount or non-combat pet much like learning a spell, recipe, or new ability, and these creatures will then show up on a new Pet tab within the Character Info section of the interface. Players will be able to access and preview their learned mounts and vanity pets through this tab.

I imagine this has a lot to do with the new “achievement” system; if certain achievements require you to collect a 50+ non-combat pets, where are you supposed to store them? Regardless, I’m not complaining, and I feel a lot less pressure to get rid of the not-quite-so-special animals in favor of the rarer drops.

If they’re all “summons” in a similar vein to the paladin and warlock mounts, I anticipate making a ridiculous /castsequence macro to bring up a random pet every time I hit the button.

I have heard of that add-on, actually, but I think that sort of thing will become more pertinent when it doesn’t require that you have pets sitting around taking up space in your bags. I can’t imagine that wouldn’t get updated.